BAGHDAD

You were first among equals
A golden nest of learning
A navel of diversity and tolerance
A living book of history
A cradle of human civilization

If not for the vultures
The inglorious invaders
If not for their greed
The shameless subjugators
If not for their cowardice
The looters of people’s peace
If not for embarrassing the free world
By technological bullies
Baghdad would have still been serene

Despite all the senseless killings
The rapes and tortures
The certain uncertainties
Your air and glorious past
Your Tigris and Euphrates
Still keeps your citizens attached to you
They continue to stand by you with their blood

These hard days would not last forever
Baghdad rejoice while in tears
For the killings and rapes would cease
The vultures would ultimately leave
Their cowardice would betray them
Their hypocrisy would expose them
And they would leave unceremoniously

Baghdad!
Bleed only for a little while
Your glory is just beginning
Your moon is yet to be full
When I cry and shade tears for you
God would relieve you from the Hyenas

23/3/2007

GITMO!

A spaghetti flash of shame
In a naked dance of sham
What happened to freedom and liberty
In the land of the brave?

July 27 2008

THE MIGRANTS

For Sally


In a world that is continuously flattened
Frontiers are being more tightened
Opportunities become unequally spread
Earthlings ride on the ray of wheels
Riding to find the end of the rainbow
Greener pastures are found in the otherness

When an earthling is displaced or moves
The flat world turns into a round Earth
Its palms though wide open becomes closed
He or she that moves out sometimes made it
He or she that moves out most times lose out

In the otherness of the other and in our otherness
Humanity must find a common ground
For our Earth is also our World

September 20, 2007 Accra , Ghana